While rescue and emergency operations continue at the deadly wildfires that swept across the Hawaiian island of Maui, many people are already looking for ways to support the response and provide relief to those affected.
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Lancaster County approved lower values to 505 properties out of the nearly 5,000 protests filed in a year with a record 23% jump in assessed values.
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Ragged Right
Pete Ricketts provides an update on his work in the U.S. Senate.
Decades of excessive spending, paid with debt, are hitting America’s credit rating. On Aug. 1, Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States federal government’s rating from AAA, the best, to AA+, one notch below. Fitch blamed “the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, the erosion of governance” and two decades of “debt standoff” over raising the debt ceiling.
The gunman who stormed the Tree of Life synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh's Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers in 2018 was sentence…
Business
Authors, journalists and filmmakers take what may seem mundane or complicated and bring it to life through engaging storytelling. Each year, I highlight interviews that stuck with me throughout the year.
Bill Robinson, associate superintendent for the Norfolk Public Schools, has resigned following an investigation that alleged he falsified documents in order to get federal funding reimbursement.
LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Auditor’s Office, in a Thursday report, alleged that a Norfolk, Nebraska, school official provided falsified documents in efforts to obtain a grant that was no longer available. The report alleges that Bill Robinson, associate superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools, submitted a series of falsified documents this spring to the Nebraska Department […]
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Nearly half the city included in the project area
The Republican presidential front-runner burned through at least $42.8 million this year, much of it to cover legal costs.
The trucking company's reported closure puts 30,000 jobs at risk.
Ragged Right
Pete Ricketts provides an update on his work in the U.S. Senate.
The celebration of a $1 billion investment in education funding took place amid the backdrop of a fight between supporters and opponents of a tax credit for private school scholarships.
President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, faced new challenges on the eve of a scheduled court appearance Wednesday in which he’s set to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors on tax and gun charges. On Capitol Hill, where Republicans are ramping up their investigations of the president and his son, the GOP chairman of the Ways and Means Committee took the unusual step of filing court documents urging the judge who could potentially reject the deal to consider testimony from IRS whistleblowers. The dynamics of the case became even more complicated hours after the lawmakers filed their motion with an accusation of misrepresentation that Hunter Biden's defense team said was a simple misunderstanding.
It's no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News and Small Busine…
President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, faced new challenges on the eve of a scheduled court appearance Wednesday in which he’s set to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors on tax and gun charges.
The IRS says it is ending its decades-old policy of making unannounced home and business visits — in a an effort to keep its workers safe and combat scammers who pose as IRS agents.
WASHINGTON — An IRS plan to test-drive a new electronic free-file tax return system next year has supporters and critics mobilizing to sway th…
An IRS plan to test drive a new electronic free-file tax return system next year has supporters and critics mobilizing to sway the public and Congress.
Tensions reached a high point Thursday on both sides of a petition to repeal a new law that will offer tax credits for donations to scholarship funds for private schools.
After moving to Miami, Shakira is facing a new investigation for alleged tax fraud in addition to other charges in Spain that may end in her being sent to prison for eight years and fined $27 million.
Lifestyles
In this column, I will discuss some of the major changes of the SECURE Act, beginning with timing.
You’re probably not using paper checks for most things, but if you are, now is a good time to stop: Check fraud tied to mail theft is up nationwide and letter carrier robberies are also on the rise.